Zion 2013

We had the best vacation in St. George and beautiful Zion!  I felt so blessed to be surrounded by our wonderful family... We miss Jed, Brina, and their family!!!

LP 2012

What can I say... It's Lake Powell... We had a total blast!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A little poo face!

Only Jesse can pull this off!!!  She is so freakin' hillarious!

Both Ava and Mac kneeboarded

It was great and so much fun to have Jesse and her sister, Jen, come with us.
It helped us all NOT miss Little B as much...

ROADTRIP TO DENVER

We had the best trip visiting my sister and her family in Denver, CO, for my niece, Berlynn's baptism.  Ava can't stop talking about it.  Almost everyday she tells me that she wishes she was eight, so she could be baptized :-)   

All of my siblings and their families were able to come too, so it was awesome to have everyone there except for my baby brother serving his mission.  

 Good ole' Little America WY

 Butterfly museum

 Makin' bank at the arcade

 This trip is where my water boy was born.  

He gained the confidence to swim on his own and now he lives in the water!!!

 I know the picture below isn't the best of everyone, but he gives you an idea of the Menlove crew, which is getting quite huge!

 These two little girlies are best pals and were literally inseparable the whole trip.

HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH

I know this is totally clinche and sort of  WAY dorky to say, but our Disneyland trip really was magical!!!  It was one of the best vacation we've ever had.  It was so fun to stay right on the property at the Disneyland Hotel (I would highly recommend it).  I've been to Disneyland so many times, but to feel like you were a part of the action the entire time was really fun and of course exhausting, but that's part of the fun, right??!  We loved being in the park an hour before the rest of the public and riding the monorail (McAllen's favorite part) directly into the park.  It was also fun to stay out as late as we wanted and just have a small walk back to our room.

Enough about that... Our kids were just darling and loved all the rides, shows, and seeing their favorite disney characters...  We're already planning our next trip...

BEWARE... picture overload :-)

 "Don't mind if I do"  (FYI... this wasn't our popcorn)

 First ride of the trip... NEMO

 All the Christmas decor was still up... so pretty

 This girl just loves everything Minnie... I couldn't get her out of her house...

She asked if she could live there :-)

 Crash!!!!!!!!!!!

 Silver Mist 

 Tink her new best friend....

She's already planning her 5th Tinkerbell birthday, which isn't until OCTOBER

 He loved the jungle boat ride

 total daddy's boy... 

which is cool with me because Jake had to hold him most of the trip

 One of the Fav's... Mickey Mouse Clubhouse show

 Ava loves that Jake the pirate shares a name with her Dad

 Another CRASH!!!!

 These two really are best friends and get along so well

 No one is more fun to hang with than Ava... She definitely knows how to party!!!

 Just a little down time and then we were back at it

 Breakfast with the princesses at Ariel's Grotto...

So much fun and totally worth it!

 Just like his Dad... Loved all the 3D movies

 Fun Memories... We'll be back!!!